Will Smith: Good Genes or Good ... Red Blazer?

Will Smith

Good Genes

or Good ... Red Blazer?

6/2/2013 4:00 AM PDT BY TMZ STAFF

Will Smith is still fresh.

Here's the 24-year-old former rapper/television star at an event in 1993 (left) -- and 20 years later, the 44-year-old blockbuster king at the premiere of his unfortunate new flick "After Earth" in New York City this week (right).

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